Display device



Mu'. 3. 1925. t.

L. o. WET'HERELL DISPLAY 'DEVICE l l Filed bec. 19', 1922 Patented Mar.3, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAUGHADAY COMPANY, OF CHARTLEY., MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION 0FMASSACHUSETTS.

DISPLAY DEVICE.

Application led December 19, 1922. Serial No. 607,861.

To all 'whom it may cro/noem.'

ELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Attleboro, in thecounty of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain newand-useful Improvements in Display Devices, of which the following is aspecification.

This invent1on relates to display devices of the class adapted for usein displaying articles of jewelry such as culf buttons and the like, andthe object of this invention is to provide a display device of thischaracter in which individual cards or holders `on which articlesofjewelry are mounted, are adapted to be removably held.

A further object of this invention is the provision of a holder cardhaving its sides bent down to form resilient wings, the same beingadapted to be held in a receptacle having bearing walls whereby theinherent spring of the stock of the holder causes its side walls toexpand and grip` the sides of the receptacle to frictionallyV retain theholder in -operating position therein.

A still further object of the invention 1s the provision of such adisplay device having a front plate which is provided with openings withinturned resilient edge portions, `which portions are adapted to receivea receptacle in which the holder member is first mounted and tofrictionally retain this box or receptacle therein.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certainnovel features of construction, as will be Vmore fully described, andparticularly pointed out in the appended claims. Y

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a front view of one form of myimproved display device showing the Vfront plate thereof as providedwith afplurality of openings and in some of which openings the articlesto be displayed are A mounted while from the lotheropenings the articlesand their mounts are removed to lustrate the marginal gripping flangesor aps. t

Figure 2 is aY perspective view illustrating the tray member of thedisplay device having a front cover plate provided with a holderrwith abox therein, another showing the box Without a holder and a thirdopening showing the flaps alone with the box and holder removed.

Figure 3 is a sectional edge view showing a pair of cuff buttons mountedon a holder, the holder mounted in a box and the box mounted in anopening in the front plate and retained therein by the edge grippingwing portions.

Figure 4 is a perspective view showing one of the cards or holdermembers removed.

Figure 5 is a sectional end view showing the holder member with a cuffbutton mounted thereon.

Figure 6 is a perspective view of one of the boxes or receptacles inwhich a holder member carrying a pair of cuff buttons is mounted.

Figure 7 is a perspective `view illustrating another form of displaydevice provided with channel openings for the reception of my improvedholder members which may be retained vtherein by the frictional grippingsurface of its side walls.

It is found in practice of advantage in some instances, in the mountingof jewelry such as cuff buttons and the like, for Vdisplay, to mount apair of buttons on a card such as that illustrated in Figure, the samehaving rearwardly bent or turned side edges arranged to retain theirinherent spring or opening tension, and to provide a receptacle for sucha holder in which the holder is held by friction of its side wings orwalls.

It is also foundof advantage to provide a display card having atray-shaped back plate with a front cover plate provided withspaced-apart openings for the reception and display of a plurality .ofcuff buttons and so formed that the holder members for the buttons maybe readily positioned in the openings lin the display device andretained therein by friction to be readily removed as desired, and thefollowing is a detailed description of one means by which these resultsmay be accomplished: y

With referenceto the drawings, 10 designates a back plate for myimproved display device which is preferably in the form of a tray havingside walls 1l 4and end walls 12, to the outturned edges of which issecured a front cover plate 14. This front plate is preferably providedwith a plurality. of spaced apart openings 1 5, each openingbeharecaused to grip, bind and frictionally re- Itain .any articleinserted to fit closely therevinV to be engaged 'by them.

lnorder to provide .a simple and effective holder or carrier member onwhich to mount or attach a pair of separable cuff but-tons or otherarticle, I have formed a card 18 which .may be formed of any suitablematerial but which is .preferably formed of cardboard as illustrated inFigure 4, having its side edges 19 bent rearwardly from the plane of itsface forming the saine into substantially Uesfhape in cross section.These wings or .sides are :preferably creased but not scored at the lineon which they are folded, whereby Athey retain .the inherent spring ofthe stock .causing them to spring outwardly orV .away from each other.

The outer .face of .this holder `member is `preferably providedwith apair of openings QOthrough which cuff buttons 2l are mountied, andthedepth of .the wings or sides is v.substantially that of the 'length ofone-half ofthe button.

It is :also found .of advantage to provide a `small box ,22 Vas bestvshown "in 'Figure'. .6, of

a-length and depth substantially that of the '.holder, whereby theseside wings 1'9 of the holder may be pressed inwardly towards each otherto .enter theboX and when positionedzin `the'box they willspringoutwardly and grip ,the side walls thereof .to be Vfrictionally.retained therein.

It is .also found of advantage -to mount the'boxes Vcontaining the .cuffbuttons, in the openingsl in the frontbplate ofthe display idevice,whereby .the marginalvedge flaps of the'opening into which it is setwill serve to frictionallygrip and .retain the boXthere- Jin; by whichconstruction the box kmay. be .readily .removed Vfrom .the .opening in`the .front plate carrying .the cuff buttons therein and the holder withthe buttons may be .readily removed from thebox whendesi'red andinay'befreadily replaced in the boX Awhen lsold and delivered.

Insoine instancesinstead of "forming the Hfront plate `with la pluralityof openings therein, `an elongated groovesuch as that shown yat 23 in.the modified construction jinQFigure 7ma-y`be employedin which the,lillleS llllalyl be mounted. directly in and frictionally retained bythe inherent spring of their side walls or wings thereby gripping theside walls of the groove. 7

My improved display device is very handsome and attractive in appearanceand when the boxes and s the 'holders aren positioned therein theirfaces arefiiush with y.the plane of the front plate, and by the `use oifthis de- `vice'v vthe goods may bemounted in their holders and theholders retained by friction in display position to bel readily removedfor inspection or Afor sale when desired.

The foregoin description is directed 4solely towards t ie constructionillustrated, "but Ifdesire it 'to be understood that I -reserve theprivilege of resorting to all thev` mechanical changes to which thedevice is'v susceptible, theinventionbei-ng defined and limited only bythe terms ofthe appended claims.

1I claim: i

vl. A display device for removably mounti .ing a multiplicityof articlesof jewelry, comprising a receptacle, a front plate for said receptaclehaving a series of openings with folded-down sidey bearing walls of asub- Vstantial depth, 1a plurality of article car! riers each adapted tohave its article attached thereto, said'hcarriers being substantiallylU-shape in cross section and having resilient side wallsof aAdepth,substantially that of said receptacle, the' 'front face .oi eachcarrier lying in substantially the'same Lplane as that ofsaid fro-ntplate, the walls :of said carrier and openingspringing relatively-toward Yeach other to grip and` frictionally retain the carrier Awiththe article attached 'thereto in 'said plate. l

Q.fIn a :display device, a plate provided with aplurality o'f openings,a box-shaped Yreceptacle'in each opening, an yarticle holder in eachreceptacle formed substantially 'UV-l shaperin crosssection, the sidewalls of said 'holder'gripping the wallsof th'e'box by the vinherentspring of its stock tojfrictionally retain the lholder therein.l

B. i In a'displaydevicma plurality of boxshaped receptacles,articlefholders formed substantially `Ushape in cross section, `the sidewalls of said holdersbeing adapted to enter and gripthewalls4 oftheiboXesby the inherentspringfof the stock to frictionallylretainltheholder therein, and the front plate Yof saiddisplaydevice'being provided with a plurality of Vopeningsfor thereception of said'bOXeS, and each opening having means forrretainiiigonevof said lboxes therein.

.47.111 a display device having a front plate, a box shaped receptacle,an article holder therein formed substantially U-shape in cross sect-ionthe side walls of said holder havingran; inherently outward spring to`grip' ythe .walls ofthe receptacle.toifrietionally. re-

tain "the holder therein, said ,front plate being provided withvopenings having resilient edge members for gripping the sides of the boxand frictionally retaining it therein.

5. A display device comprising a trayshaped back plate7 a front coverplate for 5 the tray, said front plate having openings with inturnedresilient edge walls, a boX- therein.

shaped receptacle inserted into each of said In testimon whereof I affixin signature.

openings in said front plate to be frictionally L 4 SLIE O. WET ERELL.

retained therein by the grip of its edge Walls, and an article holder`formed substantially 10 U-shape in cross section With outwardlyspringing side Walls inserted into said box to grip its Walls to befrictionally retained

